Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.